Resources

On Poetry

How to Read Poetry When Your Teacher Assigns It for Homework
http://garts.latech.edu/owl/literature/poetryguide.htm

Reading Poetry: Some Hints to Help You Read with More Pleasure and Understanding
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Teaching/Handouts/readingpoetry.html

Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.rwe.org/

Transcendentalism and Transcendentalists
http://www.transcendentalists.com/

On Song of Myself

Song of Myself (eNotes)
http://www.enotes.com/american-history-literature/song-myself

'Song of Myself' [1855] (from The Whitman Archive)
http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_52.html

Whitman's Manuscript Drafts of "Song of Myself", Leaves of Grass, 1855
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/whitman/

Web Study Text of "Song of Myself"
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/roots/legacy/whitman/songofmyselfweb.html

NPR's Fresh Air Interview with Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass on Song of Myself's 150th Anniversary
[[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125789927 |Web Page]]
Audio File

On Leaves of Grass

Whitman's Lifelong Endeavor, Leaves of Grass at 150
http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2005-07/whitman.html

Electronic Versions of all US Editions of Leaves of Grass
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/

On Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Archive
http://whitmanarchive.org/

The Walt Whitman Project
http://www.whitmanproject.org/

PBS' American Experience Documentary
Video
Supporting materials
Biographical Timeline
Walt Whitman's New York

Tools & Miscellaneous

Whitman Archive Tools
http://whitmanarchive.org/resources/tools/index.html

note: These are just a sampling of resources relating to Poetry in general, Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass and related topics. Please feel free to add resources or resource sections as needed. New resources may be removed by your humble choir master or by general consensus reached in a discussion group. A discussion group may override the choir masters dictatorial decrees, as well.